#beyhadh

Maya & Rudra ● Ep 61

Oh hello. There’s some potential here.

Merry Christmas, anon! 🎄🎄🎄

I think it largely has to do with the conceputalization/writing of the shows. Beyhadh is a more ~modern~ show, whereas EBSS was within a more traditional joint family setting. Shaadi and the exalted position of badi bahu are seen as sacred, and for that to be sullied so? Not acceptable.

I also think Maya was accepted more than Janhvi/Pooja coz her actions could clearly be written off as a result of her established mental imbalance - I haven’t watched either iteration of Beyhadh, but I know that the character is written/promoted from the very start as someone who should be feared because of her unhinged, obsessive nature that shocks; Pooja on the other hand operated in a very planned and calculated manner as opposed to the anarchic way Maya works. Pooja was also maybe seen as a greater evil for targeting a *gasp* family *gasp* indiscriminately from the elders to the kids, because she was not portrayed as someone whose lost a grip on reality/society’s norms of behaviour (even though a discerning viewer/human being with empathy could tell for sure that she had her share of mental issues and trauma.) Pooja also had two opposing personalities to constantly play - the Good Bahu v/s the revengeful angry daughter who is also kind at heart and cares about the marginalized, which was probably difficult for the TRP audience to compartmentalize and discern between.